I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.

Sweetheart, I'll lift my kilt and show you what I've got between my thighs and if you still think it's lit(tle) ---

Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

See? Things are already looking promising.

Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.